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Medicago lupulina L.

Flora Europaea the original Linnean specimen annual, T, 2n=16, 32, diploid, tetraploid mesoxeric to mesic, usually found as a ruderal, but also present in xeric and mesoxeric grasslands from the steppe up to the upper nemoral belt Palearctic Dauco-Melilotion, Alysso-Sedion, Caucalidion, Festuco-Brometea R87, R34 habitats       The most common Medicago species in our flora. Floresti, Cluj county, September 2009. dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com